 his Profession
                              and to his Country.
                            His Life to his Religion
                               and human Nature.
                             He was a dutiful Son,
                               a tender Husband,
                            an affectionate Father,
                              a most kind Brother,
                               a sincere Friend,
                              a devout Christian,
                                and a good Man.
                             His inconsolable Widow
                            hath erected this Stone,
                                The Monument of
                                  His Virtues,
                               and Her Affection.
 

                                    Book III

  Containing the most memorable Transactions which passed in the Family of Mr.
 Allworthy, from the Time when Tommy Jones arrived at the Age of Fourteen, till
he attained the Age of Nineteen. In this Book the Reader may pick up some Hints
                     concerning the Education of Children.
 

                                   Chapter I

                         Containing little or nothing.
 
The Reader will be pleased to remember, that at the Beginning of the Second Book
of this History, we gave him a Hint of our Intention to pass over several large
Periods of Time, in which nothing happened worthy of being recorded in a
Chronicle of this Kind.
    In so doing, we do not only consult our own Dignity and Ease; but the Good
and Advantage of the Reader: For besides, that by these Means we prevent him
from throwing away his Time in reading either without Pleasure or Emolument, we
give him at all such Seasons an Opportunity of employing that wonderful
Sagacity, of which he is Master, by filling up these vacant Spaces of Time with
his own Conjectures; for which Purpose, we have taken care to qualify him in the
preceding Pages.
    For Instance, what Reader but knows that Mr. Allworthy felt at first for the
Loss of his Friend, those Emotions of Grief, which on such Occasions enter into
all Men whose Hearts are not composed of Flint, or their Heads of as solid
Materials? Again, what Reader doth not know that Philosophy and Religion, in
time, moderated, and at last extinguished this Grief? The former of these,
teaching the Folly and Vanity of it, and the latter, correcting it, as unlawful,
and at the same time assuaging it by raising future Hopes and Assurances which
enable a strong and religious Mind to take leave of a Friend on his Deathbed
with little less Indifference than if he was preparing for a long Journey; and
indeed with little less Hope of seeing him again.
    Nor can the judicious Reader be at a greater Loss on Account of Mrs. Bridget
Blifil, who, he may be assured, conducted herself through the whole Season in
which Grief is to make its Appearance on the Outside of the Body, with the
strictest Regard to all the Rules of Custom and Decency, suiting the Alterations
of her Countenance to the several Alterations of her Habit:
